BEPUphysics VS awesome-monogame

Go and have a look at Bepu Physics v2: https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2

It can be quite performant these days, sadly I'm stuck developing in Unity Mono C# which is quite a bit behind.

> The other problem with simd is that in modern cpu-centric languages it often requires a rewrite for every vector width.

It does not: https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2/blob/master/BepuUtiliti...

Also you can’t go to GPU for most tasks SIMD is used in CPUs today. Good luck parsing HTTP headers with that.

This may be your personal experience but it is used successfully and happily by many in a variety of domains way different to "boring OOP back-ends". No popular general purpose language is confined to a single domain like you describe. C# lets you do things like writing a competitive Redis implementation[0], advanced physics engine that beats Jolt[1] or a game engine that does not rely on C++ or C[2], cross-platform applications[3] and so on and so forth. The language itself lets you go from high level FP style approach for business domain modeling to very low-level data crunching that is competitive with systems programming languages.

[0]: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/benchmarking/results...

[1]: https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2

[2]: https://www.stride3d.net

[3]: https://avaloniaui.net

The best pure-C# physics library (hands-down) is bepuphysics2, which unfortunately is mainly a 3D physics library, but could be used for 2D if you wanted to get your hands dirty.

Bepu Physics is pretty good and is written in really optimized C#, the author's blog post are really interesting to read.

I use https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2. I haven't worked with 3d physics engines before so I can't really comment on it's quality but it is definitely an impressive project! The developer is very active and helpful and some of the demo scenes are pretty large and complex.

XNA re-implementation/extended support seems like a good idea. I'll look into it some more. I also want to share this list of libraries suggested to me for MonoGame support: https://github.com/aloisdeniel/awesome-monogame

I don't have anything to add to Ignatus other than a GitHub repo filled with resources that can help you out.

awesome-monogame

Awesome Monogame has a nice list of tutorials

If you want to avoid duplicating work in the future (and also find some awesome libs), checkout Awesome Monogame: https://github.com/aloisdeniel/awesome-monogame.

awesome-monogame/README.md at master · aloisdeniel/awesome-monogame

Fair warning, base Monogame leaves a lot to you to create yourself. It's technically a framework and not an engine (difference explained here). However, there are several extensions that add specific things you might want.

And as for replacing libraries, I obviously don't know what you've got going on, but there are a bunch of extensions to Monogame that add all sorts of stuff. Maybe there's something in the you can use to help you?